Good call by the president, halting EPA's proposed tightening of the national ozone standard.
Saddling a limp economy with a new regulation that could kill millions of jobs while adding $1 trillion a year in new compliance costs, didn't make much sense. By some estimates, 85 percent of the country would've been in non-compliance with the stricter standard - one that Howard Feldman, API's director of regulatory and scientific affairs, last month called "incompatible with ... what most Americans do to earn a living."
The administration decided the timing wasn't right. In a letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, Cass Sunstein of the White House's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs said it was "problematic" to re-do the ozone rule this year when regular review of the standard is c... more »












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